I'm in Bahrain, closeby haha.Which gulf? I'm currently residing in Qatar. I don't know why they are taking so long with our applications. A lot of people I know who applied from here usually takes only around 3-4 months to get PPR. Now it's sad that they are taking longer than usual.
My guess for it taking this long is that they have to run the background check on 2 countries, India and Bahrain for my case, so maybe it's these countries that are taking time to reply back to them. Just a guess.